Galway Bay FM Newsroom - NUI Galway has been ranked in the top 5 universities nationwide.
The Sunday Times Good University Guide has named the university as the 3rd best in the country - up one from last year
NUI Galway has one of the lowest graduate unemployment rates of any university nationwide, at just 2 percent.
It also boasts a progression rate of 90 percent.
Meanwhile, GMIT was ranked in 16th position out of a possible 21 - unchanged from the tables for 2019.
The IT has a graduate unemployment rate of 6 percent, with a progression rate of 84 percent.
Nationally, Trinity College Dublin topped the list of Ireland's top universities for the nineteenth year in a row.